I’ll never forget the first time I heard ( )

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Anything audio related good or bad that you remember very vividly the first time you heard it. You don’t have to of owned it either.

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Linn Isobariks
Linn LP12, don’t remember the arm or cartridge
Quad ESL63’s

All heard relatively early in my hifi adventure.

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The first time I heard my Harbeth speakers – it sent chills down my spine. Now, I get to feel it everyday.

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I was probably 4 or 5. My dad dropped the needle on a vinyl of the same piano piece my mom had just played on her piano (she was comparing her own performance to the recording). My little brain was blown.

Several years later…the first time I heard “Smells Like Teen Spirit.” I think my taste in music grew up a lot that day.

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Not heared, but the first time I put on my ATH-AD500X’s
Oh the airy feeling!

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A long time ago but a pair of Apogee Diva speakers driven by a pair of Krell Mono Blocks, an Audio Research pre amp, Pink Triangle record deck, SME tone arm and some crazily expensive handmade Japanese cartridge…I never got over that and only a lottery win will provide closure lol.

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I had never listened to anything properly expensive before, I own HD650s and had some decent Shure IEMs but nothing compared to the Meze Empyrean powered from a Benchmark stack at CanJam. My first proper listen to real hifi

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When I first heard Stax I was amazed by them. I couldn’t believe the amount of detail present in recordings and the imaging to present it.

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*Rush 2112… Parents bought it for me.
when I was young.
*Allison Krauss’ voice… Again at my rents place a hanfull of years ago. Was able to see her live a few years ago and it was amazing!

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First time, when I heard my former classmate’s Beats headphones while I was in High school back then it was like listening to a martyr screaming loudly while his skin being slowly peeled off by his torturer, basically it sucked! First time when it comes for me entering the world of high quality audio, back in 2015 enough said, the sentimental M40x when I first heard it MAAAANNN it was like a new world for me.

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I’ll never forget the first time I heard “Walkin’ Blues” (written by Robert Johnson) performed by a local Blues band called The Raindogs (who named themselves after a Tom Waits album). I had no idea it was a cover of a Blues classic at the time, but after hearing their rendition I was instantly a Blues lover for life.

That was probably 15 years ago, and I now host an annual Blues party featuring a live band, collector cars, and delicious barbecue for about 250 people.

All thanks to the Raindogs, Robert Johnson, and “Walkin’ Blues.”

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